Giving Tuesday can by every day

There’s a new form of “hide and seek” going around: people paint rocks and let others in the community find them. They’ve shown up at various places around Great Bend this fall, including the courthouse square and on a window ledge in front of the Great Bend Tribune where I work.
This particular rock was painted to look like a ladybug, which made me smile.

Ladybug rock

Ladybugs always remind me of a friend who collects them. I didn’t pick it up, though. The way this game works is simple: Paint a rock and put it out there for others to find. If someone finds a rock and really likes it, that person is welcome to it. For me, it was enough to smile at the ladybug every time I walked past it until it disappeared. I’ll probably never know who painted it or who picked it up. There are many ways to share, which brings me to the main topic of this week’s column: Giving Tuesday. This year it’s on Nov. 28.
There’s Thanksgiving, then Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. This year we’ve heard all of the retailers and etailers telling us their sales are starting early and going on all month. Likewise, the folks behind Giving Tuesday say their event has already begun as they hope to reach 1,000 donors this year.
Golden Belt Community Foundation invites people to make donations to one of the more than 50 endowed funds it administers for a four-county area. There’s bound to be a non-profit you support in there.
You’ve heard the phrase “buy local.” Now GBCF is urging people to give where they live.